Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle

AvAbraham P. Bos

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle's work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life.In this deep rethinking of Aristotle's work, Abraham P. Bos argues that scholarship on Aristotle's philosophy has erred since antiquity in denying the connection between his theology and his doctrine of reproduction and life in the earthly sphere. Beginning with an analysis of God's role in the Aristotelian system, Bos explores how this relates to other elements of his philosophy, especially to his theory of reproduction. The argument he develops is that in talking about the cosmos, Aristotle rejected Plato's metaphor of artisanal production by a divine Demiurge in favor of a biotic metaphor based on the transmission of life in reproduction, in which pneuma-not breath as it is often interpreted but the life-bearing spirit in animals and plants-plays a key and sustaining role as the vital principle in all that lives. In making this case, he defends the authenticity of the treatises De Mundo and De Spiritu as Aristotle's, and demonstrates Aristotle's works as a unified system that sharply and comprehensively refutes Plato's, and in particular replaces Plato's doctrine of the soul with a theory in which the soul is clearly distinguished from the intellect.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438468303

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Abraham P. Bos is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include Aristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De Spiritu): A Discussion with Plato and His Predecessors on Pneuma as the Instrumental Body of the Soul; The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature; and Cosmic and Meta-cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues.

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"A must-read for any student and scholar interested in Aristotle's view of pneuma. In short, this book is a masterpiece, distilling many years of research of a great Aristotelian scholar." — Review of Metaphysics"[Bos's] knowledge of the Aristotelian corpus is impressive … the book deserves to be taken seriously as a valuable contribution to Aristotelian scholarship." — Philosophia Reformata"Bos offers a fresh, interesting, and important perspective. His interpretation will be very controversial, but if he is right, the standard Anglo-American interpretation of Aristotle will have to change radically." — Malcolm Wilson, author of Structure and Method in Aristotle's Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature

Innehållsförteckning

1. God’s Life-Generating Power and Its Transmission in Aristotle’s Biology and Cosmology2. The Dependence of All Nature upon God3. The Natural Desire of All Things for God4. God as Object of Eros and Source of Attraction5. God as Unmoved Principle of Motion and Source of Power6. Reproduction: A Power Transmitted by the Begetter7. Life Begins at the Moment of Fertilization8. The Magnet as Model of a Mover at a Distance9. God as Begetter of All Life According to On the Cosmos 10. Pneuma as the Vehicle of Divine Power in the Sublunary Region11. Desire as a Form of Nostalgia for the Origin12. Why Doesn’t Pneuma Play an Important Role in Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Aristotle?13. The Dubious Lines of On the Soul II 1, 412b1–414. Why Can’t the Words Sôma Organikon in Aristotle’s Definition of the Soul Refer to the Visible Body?15. Collateral Damage of the Hylomorphistic Explanation of Aristotle’s Psychology16. Resulting Damage to the Assessment of On the Cosmos and On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De Spiritu)17. Damage to the View of the Unity of Aristotle’s Work18. Intellect, Soul, and Entelechy: The Golden Rope19. Aristotle on Life-Bearing Pneuma and on God as Begetter of the Cosmos: Brief Survey of ResultsBibliographyIndex of Modern NamesIndex of Ancient NamesIndex of Texts